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Bindfold Chess Record

Dr. Alekhine has mised his own world's record. by four boards in playing $2 simultaneous games of chess blindfold at the World's Fair.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1933.

UNKNOWN MEN MAKE MEDICAL HISTORY

B.M.A. ENTER SECOND CENTURY

Chicago TREMENDOUS STRIDES IN SCIENCE

Reti, the Czech, is the only other chess master to attempt feats of this order. His record stands at {24.

(By George Gödwin.)

London. In Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, Capablanca, at the height of his In Dublin the British Medical the surgeon whose knife has reveal success, always refused to play Association is holding the first ed a condition calling for the aid blindfold. He considered that it annual meeting of the second cen of the pathologist, now speaks direct imposed an unjustifáble strain on tury of its existence. A mere back-to his laboratory colleague from the his brain and must lead ultimately ward glance is enough to bring home operating table. He does so by to a breakdown.

to us how very far medical science telephone.

Spain's Crime Wave

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Madrid.

has travelled since the association's The pathologist has the tissue foundation in the years of the specimen In his hands within two Great Reform Bill.

minutes of its removal, from the In that year a cholera epidemic patient. His staff, with the ur The Spanish police force and the raged throughout England and gency of a fire brigade answering a Civil Guards are to be reorganised. carried off fifty thousand people. It call, prepare microscopic slides, The police force is to be enlarged. was regarded by the medical pro identify the character of the dis This is Spain's first move to coun-fession of the time as a visitation jesse cells and; within seven minutes, Iter the national crime wave. from on high, and in no way con- freport back to the waiting surgeon.

An extraordinary credit of nected with the general absence of The operation proceeds. £88,000 has been authorised for sanitation.

This system, new to-day, will be- the purchase of amus and fast There were no Public Health Acts come commonplace · practice motorcare for police headquarters then and Parliament was free to tax worrow.

to-

Looking To The Future The medical profession is unlike

as part of the new scheme. leven God's sunlight without protest The Government has also pre from the medical profession. The pared a public order law, to be ap-operating table meant a ten to one proved by the Spanish Parliament, chance against the patient. The say other in that its ultimate ob which provides for trial without hospitals were little better than an- jective is, in a sense, self-destruc-.. fury of "terrorists." At present, nexes to the mortuaries beside them tion. When medical science bas it is said, juries are frequently) The existence of bacteria as in triumphed over the myriad diseases afraid to return the verdict of fective agents

that pester mankind Its task will Was unsuspected.! guilty.-Reuter..

Diagnosis was largely empirical. become merely that of the police The extent to which crimes of Anesthetics were unknown. Small-man- violence are sweeping Spain to-day, pox raged.

Already, though the Ministry of

The China Mail rise in prices, and the trade re robberies have been recorded there foundations

U.S. Stock Market

Illusions.

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is illustrated by a Reuter message Yet there were living then the Health and other public health au from Barcelona, which reports that men who were destined to transform thorities, we can see the trend to 116 murders, 119 auaults and 1253 the scientific scene and lay the wards the doctor as policeman...

of modern medical The future will see an extension since March. covery continued after the mar

science. Among this brilliant band of such services, for the education were Verchow, whose genius led him of the public upon health questions, kets' readjustment. Usually, it

Your Daily Smile to truth only later made manifest no less than national measures Hong Kong, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 1933. is true, it was discovered later

that the excited markets had ex:Not According to Euclid.

by the development of microscopy: against outbreaks or the creation of Pasteur, whose work resulted in conditions propitious for them, pected too much in the way of immediate results, and that, after tance between two pinto.

A straight line is the hardest dis aseptic surgery; Lister, who first foreshadow the time when disease ·

saw the significance of Pasteur's will be a crime against the com- the first and extremely rapid in-

discoveries; and, somewhat later,munity. crease of production to make good] `·

in the past the physician was a The Prop.

Rontgen, who gave both' physician

man of mysteries. He was invested depleted inventories, recovery Three

men returned very late and surgeon an all-seeing eye. To practical men of affairs proceeded at a slower pace. No from the club. Determining to see

These, and many others, were the in the popular mind with the super- the recent sudden break in prices doubt that will happen during each other home they took a taxi to architects of that vast bastion attributes of the magician. in the United States, both on the 1939. But the excessive violence one address, lined themselves which science to-day opposes to the To-day, the doctor generally as Stock Exchange and in the com- of reaction on the present occs shoulder to shoulder on the doorstep, malign forces, seen and unseen, that sumes the intelligence of his patient wage perpetual war upon the health and invites co-operation. He i modity marketa, caused no sur-sion is possibly to be explained, pressed the bell and waited.

ready to confess to fallibility. He prise. It was only in political not alone by the scope of the pre-ed, she was invited to pick out her

When an indignant wife appear-and happiness of mankind.

How, during the next century of knows that in the wide dissemi- circles that it caused amazement vious rise in prices, but by the husband.

the British Medical Association's nation of knowledge lies one great. weapon against the common dia and consternation. It had been fact that the speculation had been

"It's you..... you brute!" she history, will this battle go? on certain

case. He believes in hygienic educa based recognized by every one of ordin-

Unselfish Research exceptional said, furiously, pointing to the man]

tion for all. illusions. One of these was the in the middle.

Just as a century ago the ground Jary experience that at some point,

idea that, because the rise in "Oh, no," said one of the flankers, was being prepared for epoch- prices was based upon "inflation," earnestly, "you can't take that one making scientific discoveries, so we carried by the British Medical A

in view of the scope and violence

In Dublin this week a proposal

of the preceding rise and the lit could not possibly be arrested. away, because if you do my friend may be reasonably sure that un-sociation indicates how this spread

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known workers of to-day are mak- of knowledge will be organised.

is a proposal that the advertising of ing the medical history of

of public medical servcies should be morrow.

allowed... No man can say whence will come

the cure of the great scourges that scientific training. With the army An army requires thorough, and

remain.

But of the general drift of medi-gainst disease this means thorough cal science there can be no doubt and scientific education,

Medical students to-day spend be. More than ever before its two-fold tween five and a half to seven years aim is research and prevention.

in qualifying. According to many There is a tendency among the leading medical educationists that brilliant men to forge lucrative

highly speculative character of

But there has been no currency and I will fall down" the buying, severe reaction would inflation; on the contrary, the become inevitable. The reaction Federal Reserve's computation]

A Great Success.

"Rotten," said the critic, may have been more severe than of money in circulation in Amer- "Deficient in spirit and technique, was anticipated. But when wheat ica was $7,269,000,000 in March said the artist. had risen 65 cents a bushel in and $5,635,000,000 at the time "Inexcusably vulgar," said the four months and cotton 80 perjof the stock crash. This great preacher. cent, when stocks had advanced reduction was caused primarily "Without ideals or realisms," said on the average 51 points from by release of hoarded Reserve the philosopher.

"Precisely," said the film pro notes, and their return to the the low March figure-all three banks of issue when it was found ducer. movements being virtually un- that channels of trade would not

practice for the adequate security education is largely useless. interrupted-some drastic read-absorb them. But even when this

The medical student is taught the of endowed research. It was under supreme importance of committing justment was reasonably to be fact could not be overlooked, the

"I'm afraid I shall require some such conditions that Dr. Banting facts to memory: he is not taught to expected. It was certainly not speculative markets insisted that proof of your identity, madam," discovered insulin, and Dr. Gye the

said the bank cashier, when the alter-passing virus of cancer.- made less probable by the volume the dollar's depreciation on inter-none-too-fair womit presented a Medical research, once the isolate

(Continued on Page 101. to which "margin speculation" national exchange was equivalent cheque for payment. And he looked work of devoted men handicapped had risen. In no other way could to "Inflation," and the talks of ed the kind of man who thoroughly for equipment and finance, has become a mighty industry employ- the Stock Exchange transactions "restoring the 1926 price level" enjoys a little unpleasantness.,

Prod.

think.

CRIME AND THE HEAT WAVE.

of seven or eight million shares, in other words, of pushing up "Oh, I'll give you as many proofs ing millions of capital. It is like a on various preceding days, be average prices 31 per cent, fur- as you like," she answered, sweetly, great frontal attack by a highly- accounted for. Not only had Wanther still-had led to the idea "I'm the 'old girl with the face on organised army upon a common Are They Connected 7

that the rise already effected was the other side of the fence, who will enemy.

For medical knowledge is pooled, "brokers" loans," the only half of what was imme have her infernal wireless up

Street

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Vanity Fare.

runs a headline.

Paris.

familiar baronieter of 1929, in-diately ahead. In real life, prices against your dining-room wall, and to-day great labaratories of STATISTICS FROM FRANCE creased $592,000,000 since April, do not rise merely because some Last night when you got in, your Europe and America work as a or 157 per cent, but the "outside one's imagination has selected a wife said to you: If you don't turn single team so far as publication of public's participation in the higher level as more appropriate, up at a respectable hour to-morrow results go. peculative commodity markets In regard to the influence onight, I'll give you such a piece of prices of "depreciated dollar ex-y mind as you've never beard yet, had, on a smaller scale, begun to change," last year's 30 per cent. You unfeeling, selfish- suggest reminder of 1920. The discount on the pound sterling The cashier paid out quickly. case was not necessarily that of did not prevent the British "price prices for stocks or commodities average" from falling below that raised to intrinsically preposter of September, 1981. It is true ous levels, but of a speculation enough that German prices rose conducted impulsively on borrow, wildly when the mark went to 90 jed money, with a view to "realia Per cent, diecount on the ex- change market of 1922 and ing profits." It was manifest French prices when the franc fell that when any large-scale to 85 per cent, discount in 1926. An attachment for outboard out reclame, for the conditions of In Lille an elderly: woman. WAS "realizing" actually should begin, But it also happens that the then motors has been invented that slows research make for anonymity Take, found by the nephew strangled kod every one would rush in to sell irredeemable French paper cur-a boat sufficiently for an angler to for example, the work that has been stabbed in the cafe that she own at once. Recollection of the rapid rency had been increased 11,000,- troll while the engine Itself runs achieved by Sir. Almroth Wrighted. The place had been ransack though not at all unwarranted 000,000 francs in 1928, on top of rapidly enough for efficient cooling. He is one of the greatest Egures in advance in such markets, on the the prodigious war-time inflation,

medical research in cur time, yet In Troyen a farmer seriously ending of previous depressions, and the addition of 1922 to the Acting like a vacuum cleaner, a his name is seldom seen in the wounded a girl who refused his brought also remembrance of the German currency was 1,000,000,- British railway has constructed, a Press. 13-point fall of stocks in a few siderable extent, the break in which coaches are run and sealed, tro! at St. Mary's Hospital the

000,000 marks To a very con-cylinder lined with team pipes into In the department under his con- advances, and then shot himself

dead... Autumn weeks of 1922, after the

At Chen a seven-year-old girl the markets connoted the shat-the beated air being withdrawn by father of vaccinetherapy has a large sweeping rise from the year's tering of unwarranted illusions, pump.

* staff, of technicians handling how was found strangled by the road- low level, and the 20-cent break But that does not alter the fact

dreds of problems year by year. of wheat in the Autumn of 1897, that the preceding recovery in Twelve of the lrgest pumps in From that large room come, day At Clermont (Oise), a 64-year- [after a 68-cent continuous America, both in prices of goods the world, each huring capacity of After day, the vaccines that cous-old widower seriously injured

advance. On those occasions, as and in prices of securities, had a 60,000 cubic feet of water ampte, teract and dispose of a wide variety woman who was busy with her in the present Instance, recovery sound, underlying basis in the have been installed at New Orleans of diseases originating in bacterial washing, and then hanged himself

Infection

in his own attic Reuter of trade had warranted emphatic ending of the long depression to drain storm water from the city,

Has the heat wave any influence The supreme value of this system on crime? It seems reasonable to is obvious. It means possibilities) ask. Here is a little list of vio-- jaynthesis, A, in New York, "Ughts lent deathe in France for one dar

on one fact: B, in London, upon only.

another; C, in Berlin, upon a third;} In Paris woman of 75 was D, in Vleans upon a fourth, and E, found strangled in the bathroom of "Special diet for good looks, in Toronto makes the synthesis. 1a boarding house. Her jewels

Actually, the results of research were missing... fare little seen by the lay public, for A carpenter at Coubron shot his” Facts You Did Not dramatic discovery results in wide At Meudon a Pole who had been

it is only now and then that the wife dead in a drunken quarrel. Know

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evicted shot his former landlord- Much brilliant work is done with- and committed suicide.

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